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The Cisco router must be configured to use at least two authentication servers for the purpose of authenticating users prior to granting administrative access.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-216544CISC-ND-001370SV-216544r1137887_ruleCCI-000370high
Description
Centralized management of user accounts and authentication increases the administrative access to the router. This control is particularly important protection against the insider threat. With robust centralized management, audit records for administrator account access to the organization's network devices can be more readily analyzed for trends and anomalies. The alternative method of defining administrator accounts on each device exposes the device configuration to remote access authentication attacks and system administrators with multiple authenticators for each network device.
STIGDate
Cisco IOS XR Router NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-02-26

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

CFG-02.2Automated Central Management & Verification
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (28) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-10Concurrent Session Control
1.00
AC-17(1)Monitoring and Control
1.00
AC-17(2)Protection of Confidentiality and Integrity Using Encryption
1.00
AC-2(3)Disable Accounts
1.00
AC-3Access Enforcement
1.00
AC-3(7)Role-based Access Control
1.00
AC-4Information Flow Enforcement
1.00
AC-6(10)Prohibit Non-privileged Users from Executing Privileged Functions
1.00
AU-10Non-repudiation
1.00
AU-9Protection of Audit Information
1.00

+18 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-000370
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-216544r1137887_chk)

Review the Cisco router configuration to verify that the device is configured to use at least two authentication servers as primary source for authentication as shown in the following example: radius-server host 10.1.3.16 auth-port 1645 acct-port 1646 key xxxxxxxxxx radius-server host 10.1.3.17 auth-port 1645 acct-port 1646 key xxxxxxxxxx… … … aaa authentication login LOGIN_AUTHENTICATION group radius local line console login authentication LOGIN_AUTHENTICATION ! line default login authentication LOGIN_AUTHENTICATION transport input ssh If the Cisco router is not configured to use at least two authentication servers for the purpose of authenticating users prior to granting administrative access, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-17776r916074_fix)

Step 1: Configure the router to use at least two authentication servers as shown in the following example: RP/0/0/CPU0:R3(config)#radius-server host 10.1.3.16 key xxxxxxxx RP/0/0/CPU0:R3(config)#radius-server host 10.1.3.17 key xxxxxxxx Step 2: Configure the authentication order to use the authentication servers as primary source for authentication as shown in the following example: RP/0/0/CPU0:R3(config)#aaa authentication login LOGIN_AUTHENTICATION group radius local Step 3: Configure all network connections associated with a device management to use the authentication servers for the purpose of login authentication as shown in the following example: RP/0/0/CPU0:R3(config)#line default RP/0/0/CPU0:R3(config-line)#login authentication LOGIN_AUTHENTICATION RP/0/0/CPU0:R3(config-line)#exit RP/0/0/CPU0:R3(config)#line console RP/0/0/CPU0:R3(config-line)#login authentication LOGIN_AUTHENTICATION